Garrett Lundy
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I recently received my SVS PCi20-39, and retired my 200-watt RCA subwoofer to being an end-table. I calibrated my levels and started watching movies and listening to music.
I set my speaker levels to 65db using the Sound & Vision home theater tune up DVD and leave the receiver on the same setting when watching a movie. Using my Radio Shack SPL-meter I dialed the subwoofer to 63db's, which I understand to be flat because of the SPL bass-insensitivity.
On my apartment's archaic wood floors the SVS shakes the entire dwelling (Not just the room) during a heavy bass scene (the prologue of LOTR:TFOTR:EE for example). But I only get a moderate "thump" of tactile vibration from a CD with taiko drums or other percussion gear.
Anyway, my question is such: How much should my subwoofer shake my apartment? Is the LFE supposed to be more heard than felt, or is it more felt than heard? I'm finding the SVS super-rumble to get too distracting from my entertainment! (Not nearly as bad as the lesser subwoofers horrible distortion and bottoming-out).
I've heard of people placing their subwoofers on stone or concrete raiser to diminish the bass effect, or even building a "floating" stage to help contain the shakes. Is this a sound idea or just more "green cable" audio-voodoo.
The local movie-plex doesn't have subwoofers and the audio-dealer only carries Paradigm PDR-10's. I don't know how much bass is correct because I have nothing to compare my SVS to! Help!
Any help on this? Is violent shakling normal and I need to get used to it in action movies, or am I suffering from some sort of wood-floor acoustic mess?
PS: Sorry I tend to ramble on alot. :b
I set my speaker levels to 65db using the Sound & Vision home theater tune up DVD and leave the receiver on the same setting when watching a movie. Using my Radio Shack SPL-meter I dialed the subwoofer to 63db's, which I understand to be flat because of the SPL bass-insensitivity.
On my apartment's archaic wood floors the SVS shakes the entire dwelling (Not just the room) during a heavy bass scene (the prologue of LOTR:TFOTR:EE for example). But I only get a moderate "thump" of tactile vibration from a CD with taiko drums or other percussion gear.
Anyway, my question is such: How much should my subwoofer shake my apartment? Is the LFE supposed to be more heard than felt, or is it more felt than heard? I'm finding the SVS super-rumble to get too distracting from my entertainment! (Not nearly as bad as the lesser subwoofers horrible distortion and bottoming-out).
I've heard of people placing their subwoofers on stone or concrete raiser to diminish the bass effect, or even building a "floating" stage to help contain the shakes. Is this a sound idea or just more "green cable" audio-voodoo.
The local movie-plex doesn't have subwoofers and the audio-dealer only carries Paradigm PDR-10's. I don't know how much bass is correct because I have nothing to compare my SVS to! Help!
Any help on this? Is violent shakling normal and I need to get used to it in action movies, or am I suffering from some sort of wood-floor acoustic mess?
PS: Sorry I tend to ramble on alot. :b